From:	fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject:	Re: Summary of GPL issues.
17 Feb 1997 09:05:36 -0800 :
Approved:	cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
Distribution:	cygnus
Message-ID:	<199702171323.AAA03215.cygnus.gnu-win32@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Original-To:	weiqigao AT crl DOT com (Weiqi Gao)
Original-Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com (gnu-win32)
In-Reply-To:	<199702161424.AA14622@mail.crl.com> from "Weiqi Gao" at Feb 16, 97 08:26:27 am
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Weiqi Gao wrote:
> 
> Let me just point out that in order for Cygnus to continue developing and
> improving the cygwin32.dll library, it would be in Cygnus' best interest to
> keep the GPL licensing alternative available for all future versions of
> cygwin32.dll.  This is for two simple reasons: 1) cygwin32.dll incorporated
> patches (not only bug reports) submitted by users on this mailing list. 
> Those pieces of code might very well have an implied GPL with them.

Cygnus will only accept patches if their authors assign the copyright
to Cygnus (with possible exceptions for very small or trivial patches).

If Cygnus incorporated any non-trival code which was GPL'd and was
copyright by someone else into their code, then they could *not*
release that code under a commercial license.

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